What causes this?

So I was cloning my wife out of a shot (who wants to see her anyway?) and I started getting these grid outlines in the image. Im tried it on a single layer too nad it still does it. Ive never run into this before and Ive done a fair amount of clone work. WtF?

Pretty funky - where in the image are your grabbing the source from? it looks like a pretty uniform grid permitting some of the image showing through - like a grid patterned alpha channel or mask. Are you working with a regular brush set up (normal blend mode, etc.) and are you working with a mouse or a tablet? I'm just wondering if it may be a brush issue or a pressure sensitive pen issue or something not necessarily related to the clone tool itself. Just thinking out loud.

The subject looks like he could be the lead singer in the toddler version of AC DC! Love it.

kirk

I don't have a concrete answer for you, but having recently encountered something similar with the crop tool (and having an open case with Adobe), maybe I can help you get around it. Does it happen in both 8 bit and 16 bit mode? TIFF and PSD? With the various hardware acceleration options turned to their different settings? Have you updated your video card driver to the latest version?

kirkt wrote in post #15211862
Pretty funky - where in the image are your grabbing the source from? it looks like a pretty uniform grid permitting some of the image showing through - like a grid patterned alpha channel or mask. Are you working with a regular brush set up (normal blend mode, etc.) and are you working with a mouse or a tablet? I'm just wondering if it may be a brush issue or a pressure sensitive pen issue or something not necessarily related to the clone tool itself. Just thinking out loud.

The subject looks like he could be the lead singer in the toddler version of AC DC! Love it.

kirk

Hey Kirk. I was just cloning the darker area from the top of the image. Im using a normal brush, 100% flow, 5 spacing. Pretty much the only settings I use. Im at a loss. Oh, and Im working with a mouse.

dave_p wrote in post #15213142
I don't have a concrete answer for you, but having recently encountered something similar with the crop tool (and having an open case with Adobe), maybe I can help you get around it. Does it happen in both 8 bit and 16 bit mode? TIFF and PSD? With the various hardware acceleration options turned to their different settings? Have you updated your video card driver to the latest version?

Ill give those a whirl, thanks!